caedes — Lewis & Short
caedes, is (
I gen. plur. regularly caedium, Liv. 1, 13, 3; Just. 11, 13, 9; Flor. 3, 18, 14 al.;
but caedum,Sil. 2, 665; 4, 353; 4, 423; 4, 796; 5, 220; 10, 233; Amm. 22, 12, 1; 29, 5, 27; cf. Prisc. p. 771 P), f. caedo.
I Lit.
A In gen., a cutting or lopping off (post-class. and rare):
ligni atque frondium caedes,Gell. 19, 12, 7:
capilli, qui caede cultrorum desecti,App. M. 3.—
B Esp. (acc. to caedo, I. B. 1.; cf. cado, I. B. 2.), a cutting down, slaughter, massacre, carnage; esp. in battle or by an assassin; murder (usu. class. signif. of the word in prose and poetry;
esp. freq. in the histt. in Suet. alone more than twenty times): pugnam caedesque petessit,Lucr. 3, 648:
caedem caede accumulantes,id. 3, 71: caedem (the deadly slaughter, conflict) in quā P. Clodius occisus est, Cic. Mil. 5, 12:
caedes et occisio,id. Caecil. 14, 41:
magistratuum privatorumque caedes,id. Mil. 32, 87:
cum in silvā Silā facta caedes esset,id. Brut. 22, 85:
notat (Catilina) et designat oculis ad caedem unumquemque nostrum,id. Cat. 1, 1, 2:
jam non pugna sed caedes erat,Curt. 4, 15, 32:
caedes inde, non jam pugna fuit,Liv. 23, 40, 11:
ex mediā caede effugere,id. 23, 29, 15:
cum caedibus et incendiis agrum perpopulari,id. 34, 56, 10:
silvestres homines... Caedibus et victu foedo deterruit Orpheus,Hor. A. P. 392:
magnā caede factā multisque occisis,Nep. Epam. 9, 1:
caedes civium,id. ib. 10, 3:
caedem in aliquem facere,Sall. J. 31, 13; Liv. 2, 64, 3:
edere,id. 5, 45, 8; 40, 32, 6; Just. 2, 11:
perpetrare,Liv. 45, 5, 5:
committere,Ov. H. 14, 59; Quint. 5, 12, 3; 10, 1, 12; 7, 4, 43; Curt. 8, 2:
admittere,Suet. Tib. 37:
peragere,Luc. 3, 580:
abnuere,Tac. A. 1, 23:
festinare,id. ib. 1, 3:
ab omni caede abhorrere,Suet. Dom. 9: portendere, Sall.J. 3, 2; Suet. Calig. 57 et saep.; cf.
in the poets,Cat. 64, 77; Verg. A. 2, 500; 10, 119; Hor. C. 1, 8, 16; 2, 1, 35; 3, 2, 12; 3, 24, 26; 4, 4, 59; Ov. M. 1, 161; 4, 503; 3, 625; 4, 160; 5, 69; 6, 669.—
2 The slaughter of animals, esp. of victims:
studiosus caedis ferinae, i. e. ferarum,Ov. M. 7, 675; so id. ib. 7, 809; cf.
ferarum,id. ib. 2, 442;
15, 106: armenti,id. ib. 10, 541:
boum,id. ib. 11, 371:
juvenci,id. ib. 15, 129:
bidentium,Hor. C. 3, 23, 14:
juvencorum,Mart. 14, 4, 1.—
II Meton.
A (Abstr. pro concreto.) The persons slain or murdered, the slain:
caedis acervi,Verg. A. 10, 245:
plenae caedibus viae,Tac. H. 4, 1.—
B Also meton. as in Gr. fo/nos, the blood shed by murder, gore, Lucr. 3, 643; 5, 1312:
permixta flumina caede,Cat. 64, 360:
respersus fraternā caede,id. 64, 181:
madefient caede sepulcra,id. 64, 368:
tepidā recens Caede locus,Verg. A. 9, 456:
sparsae caede comae,Prop. 2, 8, 34:
caede madentes,Ov. M. 1, 149; 14, 199; 3, 143; 4, 97; 4, 125; 4, 163; 6, 657; 8, 444; 9, 73; 13, 389; 15, 174.—
C An attempt to murder:
nostrae injuria caedis,Verg. A. 3, 256.—
D A striking with the fist, a beating (post-class.): contumeliosa, Don. Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 46:
nimia,id. ib. 4, 2, 19; 2, 1, 18.